Psalms 35:11-25

¹¹Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.

¹²They reward me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:

¹⁴I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.

¹⁵But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

¹⁶With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

¹⁷Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the young lions.

¹⁸I will give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people.

¹⁹Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause.

²⁰For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

²¹And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.

²²Thou hast seen it, Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

²³Stir up thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and Lord!

²⁴Judge me, Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.

²⁵Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.